Earn money to support your family in ancient times

Tang Yuan negotiated the price and quantity with the owner of the paper workshop, agreed on the date of delivery, signed the contract, and then paid one hundred coins as a deposit. It is much rougher, so it is much cheaper than writing paper, and it takes the route of large quantity and small profit. After all, many of them are used by hawkers who buy things, and they cannot afford the price.

However, the production process is simpler than writing paper, which means that there are more people doing this business than writing paper. When there are more workshops producing oil paper, the competition will naturally be fierce. It is still rare to order so many at one time.

Moreover, the boss had heard about Tang Yuan from Boss Wang a long time ago, and knew that if the two parties cooperated well, there would be more cooperation in the future, so the boss made a serious promise to Tang Yuan that he would deliver his customized oil paper as soon as possible. past.

After Tang Yuan had a good talk with the paper-making workshop, he invited Boss Wang to eat in the shop. On the way, he happened to meet his wife and son who were looking for Boss Wang, so he invited them along the way.

Boss Wang's wife looked at Boss Wang hesitantly, and smiled embarrassedly at Tang Yuan: "This is not very good, it's too expensive."

Boss Wang has always taken care of Tang Yuan, and this time he did him a favor again, but it was just a meal, Tang Yuan was not so stingy.

"Sister-in-law thinks my shop is small?" Tang Yuan bent down and touched the little fat man led by Boss Wang's wife, "It's not expensive to invite people to dinner in your own shop."

"That's not what I meant!" Boss Wang's daughter-in-law hurriedly explained, looked at Boss Wang, saw Boss Wang nodded, and then smiled, "Okay, I'll do it up to you, thank you very much."

When Tang Yuan brought Boss Wang and his family back to the store, there were already a lot fewer customers. Tang Yuan chose a quieter corner in the corner for a few people to sit down. A few people went to get skewers.

He went to the back kitchen and asked Huzi to bring a spicy and rattan pepper soup base, and then picked three lemons from the lemon tree placed by the wall to make a pot of honey lemonade.

"Brother Wang, sister-in-law, try it." Tang Yuan poured a cup for Boss Wang and his wife, but he didn't pour the sour plum soup in the little fat man's cup.

"This is your new honey lemonade?" Boss Wang took a sip, clicked his tongue, and said to Tang Yuan, "It's really good! A customer told me about it before, and complained that you took it out ahead of time. Not for sale."

Tang Yuan: "It's not that I don't want to sell it, it's just that there are too few materials to make this, so I can't sell it for the time being."

"Then we are lucky today?" Boss Wang's wife likes the fresh taste of honey lemonade very much. After drinking it, she said reluctantly, "Brother Tang, when will your honey lemonade be available for sale?"

Tang Yuan also wants to sell it sooner. He still wants to buy a house now, but there is nothing he can do if he doesn't have enough lemons. He said softly, "At least three months later. If my sister-in-law likes it, I'll make another pot for you to take home." He can still afford something.

"Uncle Tang," the little fat man who was eating happily wiped his greasy mouth, and said in a childlike voice, "Can I still want a pot of sour plum soup?"

The little fat man loves sour plum soup very much, and he has already drank two or three cups just now.

"You child, how can you ask Uncle Tang for something!" Boss Wang's wife patted the little fat man and said to Tang Yuan, "He is talking nonsense as a child, Brother Tang, don't listen to him."

"It's okay." Tang Yuan thought the little fat man was cute, and it wasn't anything expensive, just some sour plum soup. He smiled at Boss Wang's wife, "It's not a good thing, it's just a pot of sour plum soup. Just bring them back together."

Boss Wang's wife thanked her repeatedly: "Thank you."

Tang Yuan had almost finished eating with them, so he went to the back kitchen to get them sour plum soup and honey lemonade. They were all packed in big bamboo tubes, so they were easy to take.

When he took it, Boss Wang and the others had just finished eating, so he handed over the food and said one more thing: "Children can't drink too much sour plum soup at one time, because they are afraid of catching cold. Brother Wang, you and your sister-in-law should pay attention to it." .”

At this time, the child mortality rate is high, and any disease may kill the child. When Boss Wang's wife heard this, she immediately became nervous, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will control him so that he won't let him go too far." drink!"

The little fat man was unhappy, pouted his mouth and muttered: "Uncle Tang is bad."

Tang Yuan couldn't help but pinch his chubby face.

After sending off Boss Wang's family, Tang Yuan went to Baicao Hall again, bought more than a dozen catties of ingredients for making sour plum soup, and pulled half a carload of small clay pots with big belly and shallow mouth.

He is going to make sour plum cream and put it in the store for a trial sale in the next few days.

Sour plum paste is not difficult to make. Tang Yuan prepared the ingredients according to the ratio of making sour plum soup, then washed it several times with clean water, poured in water, and soaked it for a quarter of an hour.

Because Hu's father wanted to use the stove, although the stove was very large and had two large and small pots, if Tang Yuan and Hu's father used it together, the heat could not be controlled well, so Tang Yuan had to raise a stove to set up a pot.

The sun just came out, and Tang Yuan asked Hu's mother to wash the half-carriage of small clay pots with water, dry them, and put them in the sun to dry.

Tang Yuan poured the soaked sour plum soup ingredients together with water into the pot, boiled it, and then boiled it on medium-low heat for half an hour, this is to let the taste inside be better stimulated.

The water in the pot has turned dark purple, and the water inside has become less at this time. It is obvious that the water in the pot is much lower than before.

Tang Yuan fished out the dry ingredients in the pot with a colander, then filtered out the residue in the soup with gauze, then poured the filtered soup back into the pot, and added a few large pieces of rock sugar.

After that, boil the soup with a high fire, turn over the rock sugar in the pot to let it melt quickly, and then boil it slowly over a low fire. Can get a pot of caramel too.

As the cooking time becomes longer, the water in the soup will gradually evaporate. After about a quarter of an hour, dense small bubbles will appear in the pot, and it is considered ready at this time.

According to the size of the pot Tang Yuan used, the final sour plum paste was only one third of the size of the pot.

Tang Yuan poured the boiled sour plum paste into the cleaned small clay pot. The boiled sour plum paste was about the same color as the sour plum soup, slightly darker than the sour plum soup.

Such a pot of Tang Yuan filled four small earthenware pots. The sour plum soup looked like jelly after cooling. The surface trembled when shaken, and the texture was sticky and smooth.

If you want to drink sour plum soup, just dig out a spoonful, rinse it with cold water, and stir it with a spoon. The taste is almost the same as the boiled sour plum soup, which is very convenient.

According to the current temperature, sour plum paste can be stored for at least [-] days, which is much longer than the shelf life of sour plum soup. According to the distance, it can be transported to the entire county at least or even to the next county on a fast road.

The sour plum cream is easy to drink, and tastes suitable for all ages, so it must not worry about selling.

Tang Yuan watched the stove cooking all afternoon before barely finishing the sour plum paste. Houjing placed a stack of small clay pots in the corner.

"Brother Tang, it's time to eat!" Da Zhuang shouted at Tang Yuan.

"Understood." Tang Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, washed his hands, and went to the front.

He sat down and greeted everyone: "Let's eat."

Only then did everyone move their chopsticks. The food in the shop has always been very good, every meal has meat, and the meal is full.

Hu Mo, who worked on Su Nuo's behalf, seldom ate such a meal, swallowed his saliva, and ate quietly without speaking.

But Da Zhuang is very lively, eating and chatting with Tang Yuan.

"Brother Tang, what were you doing back then?" Da Zhuang took a bite of his meal and looked at Tang Yuan, "You've been cooking all afternoon."

"I'm making sour plum paste." Tang Yuan also took a mouthful of rice. "Just take a spoonful of water and rinse it with water, it's almost the same as sour plum soup, and it can be stored longer than sour plum soup."

Da Zhuang exclaimed in surprise: "That's great! Many customers have complained to me that they have to walk a long way every time they come to buy sour plum soup, and they can only come every few days to satisfy their cravings. Now there is sour plum juice , it must sell well!"

"Brother Huzi," Tang Yuan twitched his mouth as he looked at Huzi, who was still buried in eating, "You set a table at the door tomorrow, put the sour plum paste on it, and hang a sign with your name and price on it. A can of seven coins."

A can of sour plum cream can be made into about eight cups. A pot of sour plum soup sold in the store costs three pennies per pot, and a pot of four cups. In this way, the price of sour plum cream is the same as that of sour plum soup, and customers will not feel disadvantaged.

Huzi took the time to raise his head and responded to Tang Yuan: "Okay!"

After the meal, everyone drove home together. Tang Yuan gave Hu Mo five cents back, but Hu Mo insisted on refusing to take it, saying that it was a favor for Su Nuo.

Tang Yuan couldn't force it, so he had to say thank you.

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